The Bridges of Madison County has a score by Tony winner Brown (Parade, Songs for a New World) and a book by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Norman (The Secret Garden, 'Night Mother).

Despite being one of only a handful of new musicals to arrive with a completely original score this season, The Bridges of Madison County was overlooked by the Tony Award nominating committee in the category of Best Musical.

The Bridges of Madison County earned four 2014 Tony Award nominations, including Best Original Score (Jason Robert Brown), Best Actress (Kelli O'Hara), Best Lighting Design (Donald Holder) and Best Orchestrations (Jason Robert Brown).

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A Ghostlight Records cast album preserves the score.

Critics were divided on the story about a woman who falls in love with a traveling National Geographic photographer, but chooses to stay behind to raise her family. While the musical amassed a legion of admirers who responded to Brown's score that mixed folk, country, pop and operatic passages, it failed to ignite wide audience appeal at the box office.

Five-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It) and Steven Pasquale (Reasons to Be Pretty, Far From Heaven, "Rescue Me") lead the cast as Italian-American housewife Francesca Johnson and National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid, respectively.

The romantic musical centers on a brief, four-day love affair between a National Geographic photographer and an Italian-American housewife in 1965 Iowa. Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep starred in the 1995 film adaptatio